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Tuesday, August 14th, 2007I hadn’t realized until today that there’s a blog dedicated to news of Nick Negroponte’s great One Laptop Per Child project.
Better yet, there was a post by free community wireless builder Aaron Kaplan about his recent visit to the OLPC offices, where he noticed this Ãber-cool PV-powered 802.11 repeater (note the requisite OLPC lime green […]
Time for a change: homeland security 2.0
Monday, July 30th, 2007You’ll notice this blog has a new title: Stephenson blogs on homeland security 2.0 et al.
Same basic content, but the name change reflects the fact that my vision of homeland security is largely congruent with the description Tim O’Reilly, generally acknowledged as the “father of Web 2.0,” gives it:
“Web 2.0 is the network as platform, […]
For want of a (well-paid) rent-a-cop, the kingdom was lost
Thursday, May 31st, 2007Hmm: with last week’s NECN investigative piece about understaffing of the Federal Protective Service and this story, we seem trapped in a building protection meme — and not a good one, at that.
The news that underpaid private security guards are a weak link in anti-terrorism efforts brought back memories of two years ago, when I […]
